another contender for the Darwin Awards 2010
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and another reason to give up smoking - if you are in the habit of stealing petrol from overturned tankers.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/03/230-di...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/03/230-di...
Grauniad said:
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He said that the driver survived the accident, and that the initial spill was ignited by the cigarette of a man trying to salvage some of the fuel in a tin can.
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He said that the driver survived the accident, and that the initial spill was ignited by the cigarette of a man trying to salvage some of the fuel in a tin can.
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Edited by fido on Sunday 4th July 15:59
Pesty said:
This hapens more often that you would think, I recal quite a few incidents like this. Usualy they put holes in over land pipelines. sombody turns up with a fag. Boom.
I think there was something similar in Nigeria some years back involving a sabotaged petrol pipeline. Dozens of people wading around, waist-deep in petrol trying to fill buckets and jerry cans and then some genius pitched up with a fag on...maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
I didn't think a cigarette could ignite petrol?
I think from this story it's pretty obvious that's not correct.Very sad indeed.
MX7 said:
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
I didn't think a cigarette could ignite petrol?
I think from this story it's pretty obvious that's not correct.Very sad indeed.
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
I didn't think a cigarette could ignite petrol?
I think from this story it's pretty obvious that's not correct.Very sad indeed.
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
I didn't think a cigarette could ignite petrol?
I think from this story it's pretty obvious that's not correct.Very sad indeed.
Knocks the story stone dead.
So, what caused the fire..?
mybrainhurts said:
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
maser_spyder said:
MX7 said:
I didn't think a cigarette could ignite petrol?
I think from this story it's pretty obvious that's not correct.Very sad indeed.
Knocks the story stone dead.
So, what caused the fire..?
It's pretty irrelevant compared to the outcome.
I've travelled in developing countries, there's generally a significantly lower perceived level of 'risk', coupled with the fact that life is, generally, cheap. It's a pretty miserable existence, hence a few litres of petrol being worth the risk in pinching.
MX7 said:
IIRC it's the fumes which ignite. So if someone was near the lorry which was emptying but inside was storing up fumes, then they could detonate. It happened in the UK many years ago when a Lorry driver was filling up a Petrol station - as the lorry was nearly empty he lit up, and the fumes in the tanker he was driving detonated and took out the whole station......Jasandjules said:
MX7 said:
IIRC it's the fumes which ignite. So if someone was near the lorry which was emptying but inside was storing up fumes, then they could detonate. It happened in the UK many years ago when a Lorry driver was filling up a Petrol station - as the lorry was nearly empty he lit up, and the fumes in the tanker he was driving detonated and took out the whole station......Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff